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Litigation Notes

I am no less busy but we have beaten all the cases into a position where they now fit into the scheduled. Today is loosely structured but starting Monday, there isn't a free moment for a while. I don't mind that, though. What drove me stark raving mad was the ever-shifting scheduled in which I often had several things scheduled at once and moving them was futile since it was unclear which would move later. Now I'm litigating like an alcoholic, one day at a time.

You may recall my story of a bizarre employment case we have. There was a 4-hour hearing yesterday in a forum that usually schedules one-hour hearings. To back up my claim that this matter is truly unusual, a particularly experienced judge was specially requested from another office to come in and hear this matter. He was requested by the hearing agency, not the parties. As experienced as he was, he indicated that this was indeed the most unusual case he had ever seen. The hearing started with disclosure of yet another proceeding that we had never heard of and had never received notice of. The judge was skeptical but reviewed the file and learned that, indeed, no one had ever sent us any notice.